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The Nature of Waste Associated with Closed Mines in England and Wales
The nature of waste associated with closed mines in England and Wales Minerals & Waste Programme Open Report OR/10/14 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS & WASTE PROGRAMME OPEN REPORT OR/10/14 The National Grid and other Ordnance Survey data are used with the permission of the The nature of waste associated Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. OS Topography © Crown with closed mines in England and Copyright. All rights reserved. BGS 100017897/2010 Wales Keywords Abandoned mine waste facilities; Palumbo-Roe, B and Colman, T England and Wales; mineral deposits; environmental impact; Contributor/editor European Mine Waste Directive. Cameron, D G, Linley, K and Gunn, A G Front cover Graiggoch Mine (SN 7040 7410), Ceredigion, Wales. Bibliographical reference Palumbo-Roe, B and Colman, T with contributions from Cameron, D G, Linley, K and Gunn, A G. 2010. The nature of waste associated with closed mines in England and Wales. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/10/14. 98pp. Copyright in materials derived from the British Geological Survey’s work is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Environment Agency that commissioned the work. You may not copy or adapt this publication without first obtaining permission. Contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Section, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail [email protected]. You may quote extracts of a reasonable length without prior permission, provided a full acknowledgement is given of the source of the extract. The views and statements expressed in this report are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the Environment Agency. -
New Year Walks 2017 Welcome! 13 January Circular Walk Around Pensychnant from the Car Park We Will Walk Towards Crow's Nest Farm
Cerdded Conwy Walks New Year Walks 2017 Welcome! 13 January Circular Walk around Pensychnant From the car park we will walk towards Crow's Nest Farm. The walk continues over fields following one steep path up to the lake Gwern Engen. Following the Pensychnant estate wall we cross over Bwlch Sychnant to Alltwen. Depending on the weather and group spirit we can extend the walk via Pen Pyra or we can carry on following the North Wales Path. On reaching Conwy Mountain we will get rewarded with lovely views of the Conwy Valley. We return via Bryn Rhedyn and along Oakwood Park back to our cars. Please be prepared for all kind of winter weather and don't forget a warm drink and a snack. Dogs on leads welcome on this walk. Duration: 3-4 hours Distance: 7 km / 4.5 miles Meet: First car park on left coming from Conwy on the Sychnant Pass Road. SH 759 768 Start: 9:45am for at 10:00am start Booking: Jutta Lorenz-Kubis 01492 650705 Moderate Pen y Gaer We’ll walk steeply up to the Coedty / Eigiau road and cross on stepping stones and over to the leat towards Pen y Gaer – the site of Bronze Age and Iron Age forts. We will return through the woods. If the weather’s kind to us we will get good views down the Conwy valley and up towards Cwm Eigiau. Please be prepared for all kind of winter weather and don't forget a warm drink and a snack. Distance: approx. 5 miles Meet: Meet at Y Bedol in Tal y Bont, Conwy Valley. -
Star Inn, by PUBLIC AUCTION
Chartered Surveyors Auctioneers Estate Agents Established 1862 www.morrismarshall.co.uk BY PUBLIC AUCTION Star Inn, Dylife, Llanbrynmair, SY19 7BW Auction on Thursday 22nd September 2016 at Welshpool Livestock Market, Buttington, Welshpool, Powys SY21 8SR at 2pm • A noted former Public House/Restaurant/Bed & Breakfast. • Situated in a rural location, Machynlleth (10 miles) and Llanidloes (9½ miles). • Extensively refurbished and modernised to a high standard. • Lounge Bar, Dining Room/Restaurant, Meeting Room, Reception Room, Commercial Kitchen, Gents & Ladies Guide Price : £225,000 - £250,000 Llanidloes Office 01686 412567 [email protected] Foreword: The current owners purchased The Star Inn in 2013 and have carried out a complete scheme of refurbishment and modernisation. The property can be visited at www.starinndylife.co.uk. The Star Inn has been renowned in the past, and since 2013 has been open as a public house/bed & breakfast/restaurant. During the last few months the public bar and restaurant have been closed as the current owners are just taking in bed & breakfast visitors. The property offers prospective purchasers an Dining Room & Restaurant With Bar Servery opportunity to re-open The Star to its full with bench seating potential as a public house/restaurant and Store Room & Cellar bed & breakfast venture or to provide a Gentleman & Ladies WCs slower way of life as the current owners are operating. Second Reception Room With staircase leading off to the Letting Rooms on the first floor The property is located in rural Mid Wales being convenient to a number of villages and Meeting Room towns with the market towns of Llanidloes Commercial Kitchen (9½ miles) and Machynlleth (10 miles). -
Pantglas Junior School
2 The Aberfan Disaster October 1966 I have been asked to inform that there has been a landslide ‘‘ at Pantglas. The tip has come down on the school Emergency call received by Merthyr Tydfil Police at 9.25am on 21st October 1966. ’’ The Tragedy At approximately 9.15am on Friday 21st October 1966, Merthyr Vale colliery tip situated The scene immediately following the disaster at Pantglas on the mountainside overlooking the village of Junior School Aberfan in South Wales, slipped and descended on Pantglas Junior School. Police supervised all of the victim identifications at Bethania Chapel, under the ministry of Reverend The tip slid like an avalanche. It destroyed the school, S. Lloyd, which was provided as a temporary mortuary 20 nearby houses in its path, and rendered other 250 yards from the scene of the devastation. houses in the vicinity unsafe for habitation. With its balcony, the chapel seated a congregation Half a million tonnes of coal waste in a tidal wave 40 of 500, and was approximately 30 yards by 20 yards feet high hit the village. The school was in session as it in size. was the last day before half term week. The vestry, 20 yards by 10 yards, housed voluntary 144 children and adults died; 116 were school workers for the Red Cross together with St John’s children. Half of all the pupils at Pantglas Junior School Ambulance stretcher-bearers. were killed together with five of their teachers. The chapel was in use as a mortuary and missing The tragedy was caused by two days of continual person’s bureau from 21st October until 4th heavy rain loosening the coal slag, which was situated November 1966. -
The Involvement of the Women of the South Wales Coalfield In
“Not Just Supporting But Leading”: The Involvement of the Women of the South Wales Coalfield in the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike By Rebecca Davies Enrolment: 00068411 Thesis submitted for Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Glamorgan February 2010. ABSTRACT The 1984-85 miners’ strike dramatically changed the face of the South Wales Valleys. This dissertation will show that the women’s groups that played such a crucial supportive role in it were not the homogenous entity that has often been portrayed. They shared some comparable features with similar groups in English pit villages but there were also qualitative differences between the South Wales groups and their English counterparts and between the different Welsh groups themselves. There is evidence of tensions between the Welsh groups and disputes with the communities they were trying to assist, as well as clashes with local miners’ lodges and the South Wales NUM. At the same time women’s support groups, various in structure and purpose but united in the aim of supporting the miners, challenged and shifted the balance of established gender roles The miners’ strike evokes warm memories of communities bonding together to fight for their survival. This thesis investigates in detail the women involved in support groups to discover what impact their involvement made on their lives afterwards. Their role is contextualised by the long-standing tradition of Welsh women’s involvement in popular politics and industrial disputes; however, not all women discovered a new confidence arising from their involvement. But others did and for them this self-belief survived the strike and, in some cases, permanently altered their own lives. -
The Silurian Issue 1 June 2016
The Silurian Issue 1 June 2016 1 The Silurian Issue 1 June 2016 Contents 3 Origin and development of Welcome to the first edition of “T he ”. I hope you all enjoy the articles the club. Colin Humphrey. Silurian and I would like to thank all those who 5 Mineral Musings. Steve have contributed. I have tried to ensure a Moore. variety of topics as each of you will have some aspects of geology you prefer over 7 Metal Mines of Mid-Wales: others. Where are the lodes? Colin Humphrey. This is just the beginning and as with all 9 Fossils in the News. Sara publications, I expect it to change and Metcalf. morph over time into what you, the members, want it to be. 10 Fossil Focus: Trilobites. Sara Metcalf. Michele Becker 12 Geological Excursions: Excursion 1 Gilfach. Tony Thorp. 14 Excursion 2 Onny Valley. Michele Becker. 15 Bill's Rocks and Minerals. Fossil Wood: Mineral or Fossil? (or Both?). Bill Bagley. 17 Concretions and how they form. Tony Thorp. Mid-Wales Geology Club members. Photo ©Colin 20 Exploring the Building Humphrey. Stones of Llanidloes. Submissions Michele Becker. Submissions for the next issue by the beginning of October 2016 please. Please send articles for the magazine as either Cover Photo: Tan-y-Foel Quarry ©Richard plain text (.txt) or generic Word format (.doc), Becker and keep formatting to a minimum. Do not include photographs or illustrations in the All photographs and other illustrations are by the document. These should be sent as separate files author unless otherwise stated. saved as uncompressed JPEG files and sized to a All rights reserved. -
The Relationship Between Iron Age Hill Forts, Roman Settlements and Metallurgy on the Atlantic Fringe
The Relationship between Iron Age Hill Forts, Roman Settlements and Metallurgy on the Atlantic Fringe Keith Haylock BSc Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Supervisors Professor John Grattan, Professor Henry Lamb and Dr Toby Driver Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the award of degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Aberystwyth University 2015 0 Abstract This thesis presents geochemical records of metalliferous enrichment of soils and isotope analysis of metal finds at Iron Age and Romano-British period settlements in North Ceredigion, Mid Wales, UK. The research sets out to explore whether North Ceredigion’s Iron Age sites had similar metal-production functions to other sites along the Atlantic fringe. Six sites were surveyed using portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF), a previously unused method in the archaeology of Mid Wales. Also tested was the pXRF (Niton XLt700 pXRF) with regard to how environmentally driven matrix effects may alter its in situ analyses results. Portable x-ray fluorescence was further used to analyse testing a range of certified reference materials (CRM) and site samples to assess target elements (Pb, Cu, Zn and Fe) for comparative accuracy and precision against Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for both in situ and laboratory sampling. At Castell Grogwynion, one of the Iron Age sites surveyed recorded > 20 times Pb enrichment compared to back ground values of 110 ppm. Further geophysical surveys confirmed that high dipolar signals correlated to the pXRF Pb hotspots were similar to other known Iron Age and Roman period smelting sites, but the subsequent excavation only unearthed broken pottery and other waste midden development. -
Mining for Metals in Wales
Mining for Metals in Wales By F. J. North National Museum of Wales 1962 We learn from the history of nearly all ages that very many men have been made rich by the mines. Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556. PREFACE This monograph has been prepared by the former Keeper of Geology in the Museum, who served as Acting-Keeper of the newly established Department of Industry pending the appointment of the present head of the Department, Mr. D. Morgan Rees, M.A. It provides a brief summary of the widely dispersed literature of the subject, synthesized in the light of personal observations over many years. An adequate history of the mining industry in Wales has yet to be written, but in the meantime the bibliography here included will, it is hoped, lead those who wish for further information to the more important of the works in which it can be found. As the Department of Industry develops, and especially when the galleries in the new west wing become available, exhibits illustrating many of the operations described in these pages will play an increasingly important part, and information and objects likely to be of assistance in preparing such exhibits will be welcomed in the Department. D. DILWYN JOHN, April, 1962. Director. CONTENTS Page List of illustrations vi Introduction vii 1. The origins and distribution of ores 1 THE FIRST PERIOD From prehistoric times to the Dark Ages 11. Mining in prehistoric times 8 III. Mining by the Romans 12 IV. The Dark and Middle Ages 30 THE SECOND PERIOD From the Tudor Renaissance to the Mine Adventurers V. -
Summer Walks 2017 Welcome! 23 June 2 Lakes and Ty Hyll, Capel Curig We Will Walk Into the Gwydir Forest and Visit 2 of Its Quiet and Less Frequented Lakes
Cerdded Conwy Walks Summer Walks 2017 Welcome! 23 June 2 Lakes and Ty Hyll, Capel Curig We will walk into the Gwydir Forest and visit 2 of its quiet and less frequented lakes. After a descent to Ty Hyll, we cross to the south side of the Afon Llugwy and return to Capel Curig via the moorland and forest to the north east of Moel Siabod. The walk gives good views of the main Snowdonia ranges. Most of this route is on well defined footpaths and tracks, but parts are likely to be wet underfoot, so decent boots are essential. Sorry, no dogs on this walk. Duration: 4.5-5.5hrs Distance: 14km/8miles. 360m/1200ft of ascent Meet: Siabod Café, Capel Curig. SH 727 578. Parking, toilets and refreshments available Start: 09:30am for 09:45am start. (Sherpa bus service S2 from Betws y Coed arrives at Capel Curig at 09:20am). Booking: Peter Collins: 01492 680353. If leaving a message, please leave a landline number on which you can be reached Strenuous 24 June North Wales Pilgrims Way – Walk 2 - Llanasa to St Asaph This is the second section of the North Wales Pilgrim’s Route from Holywell to Bardsey Island (133.9 miles). Having walked the first section from Basingwerk Abbey, Holywell to Llanasa Church, Llanasa, as part of the spring programme this walk will start from Llanasa, with the group passing through, Trelawnyd, Tremeirchion and on to St Asaph Cathedral to end the section and collect our Pilgrim Passport Stamps along the way! As this is a linear walk we will require a minibus or car share. -
Zones of Influence
Eryri Local Development Plan Background Paper 21 Zones of Influence May 2017 Background Paper 21: Zones of Influence – May 2017 Introduction The Authority has identified eight ‘Zones of influence’ which are within and straddle the National Park. These areas have similar characteristics and have strong community links. The work on the Zones of Influence draws on a wide range of surveys and related national, regional and local plans and strategies discussed in the Spatial Development Strategy Background Paper. The paper identifies key centres within each zone of influence and recognises the influences of key centres outside the Park to inform the Spatial Development Strategy. The paper identifies key transport routes, key employment areas, and further education and key services for each zone. The paper discusses the main issues for each zone individually, the implications for the Local Development Plan and how the issues are addressed in the Plan. 2 Background Paper 21: Zones of Influence – May 2017 1.1. BALA ZONE OF INFLUENCE 3 Background Paper 21: Zones of Influence – May 2017 What’s it like now? 1.2. This zone covers Penllyn rural hinterland covering the community councils of Llanuwchllyn, Llandderfel, Llangywer, Llanycil and Bala and has a population of 4,362 according to the 2011 Census. The landscape is rural in character with scattered farmsteads and small villages. The zone includes Llyn Tegid (the largest natural lake in Wales), Llyn Celyn, Arenig Fawr and parts of the Aran Fawddwy. The main service centre for the area is the market town of Bala. Penllyn has strong traditions based on the Welsh language and culture. -
British Mining No 10
ISSN: 0308-21 99. ISBN: 0 901450 12 X. BRITISH MINING NO 10. THE MINES OF MONTGOMERY AND RADNORSHIRE. by J.R. FOSTER-SMITH, C.ENG, FGS, FIMM A MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY 1978 NB This publication was originally issued in the A4 format then used by the society. It has now been digitised and reformatted at A5. This has changed the original pagination, which is given in square brackets. BRITISH MINING NO.10 THE MINES OF MONTGOMERY & RADNORSHIRE CONTENTS Page Author’s note - MONTGOMERYSHIRE – INTRODUCTION 1 MONTGOMERYSHIRE – DETAILS OF THE MINES 3 RADNORSHIRE – INTRODUCTION 33 RADNORSHIRE – DETAILS OF THE MINES 33 BIBLIOGRAPHY 37 INDEX OF MINES 38 et seq ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL MAP OF WALES SHOWING MINING LOCALITIES Frontispiece. GENERAL SECTION OF STRATA IN THE CENTRAL WALES OREFIELD facing p 1. FIGURE 1. Sketch map showing sites of Montgomeryshire mines facing p 2. FIGURE 2. Sketch map showing sites of Montgomeryshire mines facing p 3. FIGURE 3. Sketch map showing sites of Radnorshire mines facing p33. OLD SECTION OF CROWLWM MINE facing p26. COVER DESIGN by R.H. Bird: Llechwedd-ddu Shaft, Dylife Mine. MAPS & SECTION by Geoplot Services, The Radleth, Plealey, Pontesbury, Shrewsbury SY5 0XF. PUBLISHERS NOTE Since this series is issued as a separate entity to our other publications, this volume appears prior to British Mining No.9, which is due for release in the Spring of 1979. © J.R. Foster-Smith & N.M.R.S. Publications. AUTHORS NOTE This monograph is one part of a larger work which sets out to make a complete survey of the sites and nature of all the presently identifiable non-ferrous metal mines and trials in Wales. -
Road Number Road Description A40 C B MONMOUTHSHIRE to 30
Road Number Road Description A40 C B MONMOUTHSHIRE TO 30 MPH GLANGRWYNEY A40 START OF 30 MPH GLANGRWYNEY TO END 30MPH GLANGRWYNEY A40 END OF 30 MPH GLANGRWYNEY TO LODGE ENTRANCE CWRT-Y-GOLLEN A40 LODGE ENTRANCE CWRT-Y-GOLLEN TO 30 MPH CRICKHOWELL A40 30 MPH CRICKHOWELL TO CRICKHOWELL A4077 JUNCTION A40 CRICKHOWELL A4077 JUNCTION TO END OF 30 MPH CRICKHOWELL A40 END OF 30 MPH CRICKHOWELL TO LLANFAIR U491 JUNCTION A40 LLANFAIR U491 JUNCTION TO NANTYFFIN INN A479 JUNCTION A40 NANTYFFIN INN A479 JCT TO HOEL-DRAW COTTAGE C115 JCT TO TRETOWER A40 HOEL-DRAW COTTAGE C115 JCT TOWARD TRETOWER TO C114 JCT TO TRETOWER A40 C114 JCT TO TRETOWER TO KESTREL INN U501 JCT A40 KESTREL INN U501 JCT TO TY-PWDR C112 JCT TO CWMDU A40 TY-PWDR C112 JCT TOWARD CWMDU TO LLWYFAN U500 JCT A40 LLWYFAN U500 JCT TO PANT-Y-BEILI B4560 JCT A40 PANT-Y-BEILI B4560 JCT TO START OF BWLCH 30 MPH A40 START OF BWLCH 30 MPH TO END OF 30MPH A40 FROM BWLCH BEND TO END OF 30 MPH A40 END OF 30 MPH BWLCH TO ENTRANCE TO LLANFELLTE FARM A40 LLANFELLTE FARM TO ENTRANCE TO BUCKLAND FARM A40 BUCKLAND FARM TO LLANSANTFFRAED U530 JUNCTION A40 LLANSANTFFRAED U530 JCT TO ENTRANCE TO NEWTON FARM A40 NEWTON FARM TO SCETHROG VILLAGE C106 JUNCTION A40 SCETHROG VILLAGE C106 JCT TO MILESTONE (4 MILES BRECON) A40 MILESTONE (4 MILES BRECON) TO NEAR OLD FORD INN C107 JCT A40 OLD FORD INN C107 JCT TO START OF DUAL CARRIAGEWAY A40 START OF DUAL CARRIAGEWAY TO CEFN BRYNICH B4558 JCT A40 CEFN BRYNICH B4558 JUNCTION TO END OF DUAL CARRIAGEWAY A40 CEFN BRYNICH B4558 JUNCTION TO BRYNICH ROUNDABOUT A40 BRYNICH ROUNDABOUT TO CEFN BRYNICH B4558 JUNCTION A40 BRYNICH ROUNDABOUT SECTION A40 BRYNICH ROUNABOUT TO DINAS STREAM BRIDGE A40 DINAS STREAM BRIDGE TO BRYNICH ROUNDABOUT ENTRANCE A40 OVERBRIDGE TO DINAS STREAM BRIDGE (REVERSED DIRECTION) A40 DINAS STREAM BRIDGE TO OVERBRIDGE A40 TARELL ROUNDABOUT TO BRIDLEWAY NO.